ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Sibling position as a condition for the formation of some formal and dynamic features of athletes

Gornov SV, Rakitina OV, Bogun TV
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Federal Research and Clinical Center for Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Tatiana V. Bogun
B. Dorogomilovskaya, 5, Moscow, 121059, Russia; ur.liam@1nugob

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Author contribution: Bogun TV — data acquisition, study concept and design, manuscript writing, literature review, data interpretation; Rakitina OV — literature review, planning the empirical phase of the study, analysis and interpretation of the results, editing; Gornov SV — editing, approval of the final version of the article, general management.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was performed in accordance with the guidelines “Organization and Execution of Psychophysiological Assessment of the Russian National Team Athletes Within as Part of Extensive Medical Examination” and approved by the Academic Board of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation of FMBA of Russia (protocol № 4 of 3 June 2016), it was also in line with the guidelines “Assessment of the Highly Trained Athletes’ Psychological State as Part of Extensive Medical Examination” and was approved by the Academic Board of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation of FMBA of Russia (protocol № 16 of 29 March 2018); the informed consent was submitted by all study participants.

Received: 2023-05-29 Accepted: 2023-06-20 Published online: 2023-06-29
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An athlete’s performance is a major issue of the elite sports. The current studies are focused on various factors of success, however, the effect of sibling position on the athlete’s personality formation is poorly understood. The study was aimed to assess the correlation of the formal and dynamic features with the resource potential in athletes who played badminton based on their sibling position using the structured interviews; Questionnaire of Formal and Dynamic Properties of Personality by V.M. Rusalov; Perinatal Experience – Resource Potential test by N.P. Kovalenko; correlation analysis. A total of 40 athletes were enrolled (20 boys and 20 girls; average age 14.5 year). In the “eldest or only child” subsample, the athletes’ communicative plasticity negatively correlated with the parameters of sensory and physiological systems (r = –0.50), as well as stress tolerance (r = –0.60). Correlations between the stress tolerance and psychomotor ergicity (r = 0.63), etc., were revealed. The athletes of the “second or later-born child” subsample had higher psychomotor plasticity and a larger resource potential (p < 0.05). The basic perinatal matrix is integrated into the formal and dynamic structure of the athlete’s personality. Thus, athletes of the “second or later-born child” subsample have a higher resource potential. Athletes of the “eldest or only child” subsample show lower psychomotor plasticity, however, they are more tenacious in fulfilling their goals. The areas of concern for the sports psychologist who works with athletes are highlighted in accordance with the results.

Keywords: athletes, sibling position, basic perinatal matrices, resource potential, communicative emotionality, communicative plasticity

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